Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT — Congress may not want to hear from opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act at today's hearing, but that hasn't stopped a broad coalition of (often fierce) competitors representing the Internet's giants from placing an ad in today's NYT …

Key AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse to leave — Brad Garlinghouse, President of the Applications and Commerce Group and head of AOL's Silicon Valley operations is leaving the beleaguered online service AOL, according to multiple sources. Garlinghouse is well known in Silicon Valley …

Steve Jobs Secret Meeting to Explore an iPod Phone is Revealing — In our special report today we present you with a fascinating account of one of Steve Jobs' secret meeting that involved creating the iPhone and how the iPod Phone almost came to be. It was much closer to reality than any us could have ever imagined at the time.

Gmail app for iOS available in the App Store (again) — Two weeks ago, we introduced our Gmail app for iOS. Unfortunately it contained a bug which broke notifications and displayed an error message, so we removed it from the App Store. We've fixed the bug and notifications are now working, and the app is back in the App Store.

Google folds Checkout into Wallet — Google Checkout and Google Wallet are two Google products with very similar goals: storing your payment information and ushering commerce through Mountain View's ecosystem. It was just a matter of time before the company got around to mixing them together …

Facebook tracking is under scrutiny — In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information. — Far more quietly, another debate is brewing …

Amazon Releases Kindle Fire Source Code — Developers looking to “hack it up” with Amazon's latest, greatest, and only Android-powered tablet can now download the source code behind the Kindle Fire. In order to comply with Android licensing agreements, Amazon's required to release this code for external developers.

Android sees a 472% increase in malware since July — Android sees a 472% increase in malware since July — Android is definitely winning... the race for the most malware, that is. — According to a new study from the Juniper Global Threat Center, malware on Android rose an incredible 472% since July 2011.

Evernote Takes On Web Reading With Clearly — Evernote, an application that has gained momentum by providing an easy way for people to quickly capture things they want to remember, is determined to branch out past its humble note-taking origins. — First, the company bought Skitch …

The Rootkit Of All Evil - CIQ — And the spy and invasion of privacy saga continues, but this time XDA Recognized Developer TrevE seems to have hit the very core of most of what is happening with devices. You may recall from a few articles back that we started talking about something called CIQ or Carrier iQ.